Laravel jobs, freelancing, remote work... ?

Come up with an application to build that can showcase various skills and put it on github. Reference it when you apply for jobs.

The biggest issue I've seen with the various freelance sites is people looking for developers rarely have a realistic idea about budget, and there are always some low-ball people offering to do work for peanuts.. In my opinion, they aren't going to be much help to you for getting profitable freelance work.

@willvincent Yeah, I know what you mean... Also, I've noticed a lot of demanding clients that are looking for someone who needs to know almost every possible PHP framework (Laravel, Zend, Yii and CodeIgniter expert), but also Angular, React, Vue... and web design... and many other things. WTF? I wouldn't be surprised if one of the requirements is to have the Grand Slam title.

@Filip_Zdravkovic there is a direct, inverse, correlation between the amount of money people are willing to pay vs. the service they expect. Always, without fail I have experienced that people less willing to pay realistic amounts will expect more. Probably because those who are willing to cough up a reasonable fee understand that they're hiring a professional and trust them to provide a high quality service.

In my opinion you are better off looking for a good solid company to work at for a number of years.

Edit: not fly by night but a real reputable company and not some start-up a real company, maybe a startup company okay if it seems promising.

And don't put all of your eggs in one basket learn something besides laravel, some large Enterprise companies and state governments have certain specs you have to program by going in and saying well I know laravel it's not going to mean nothing.

Getting a laravel job is really hard.